Ambassador Morgenthau's Story (Paperback, New edition)

Originally published in 1918, Ambassador Morgenthau's Story is one of the most insightful and compelling accounts of what became a recurring horror during the twentieth century: ethnic cleansing and genocide. While he served as the U.S. ambassador to the Ottoman Empire under Woodrow Wilson from 1913 to 1916, Henry Morgenthau witnessed the rise of a new nationalism in Turkey, one that declared ""Turkey for the Turks."" He grew alarmed as he received reports from missionaries and consuls in the interior of Turkey that described the deportation and massacre of the Armenians, The ambassador beseeched the U.S. government to intervene, but it refrained, leaving Morgenthau without official leverage. His recourse was to appeal personally to the consciences of Ottoman rulers and their German allies; when that failed, he drew international media attention to the genocide and spearheaded private relief efforts. ""The power of Morgenthau's book to move and instruct us eighty years after its publication,"" writes Roger Smith in his introduction, ""is intimately connected with its truthfulness about the atrocities and the men behind them, but also about the capacities of humans to commit enormous evil with a light heart."" The memoir also documents the beginnings of U.S. interest in international human rights as well as patterns and symptoms of genocidal tendencies, foreshadowing most notably the Nazi Holocaust.

General

Imprint:	Wayne State University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 1999
First published:	October 2003
Authors:	Henry Morgenthau
Volume editors:	Peter Balakian
Introduction by:	Roger Smith
Preface by:	Robert Jay Lifton (Visiting Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School, USA)
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	424
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-8143-2979-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > Diplomacy Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > Other warfare & defence issues > War crimes > Genocide Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General Books > Biography > General
LSN:	0-8143-2979-9
Barcode:	9780814329795

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